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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Rumours: Strong Arm and... WTF!

This is some pretty cool intel; one of our readers was browsing Tumblr and stumbled across some photos of an actor who apparently does Nerf commercials... the first image, we can identify as the much anticipated N-Strike Elite Strong Arm..

Here's a pic montage of the dude.. but hang on.. have a look at the blaster in the right hand image... Ok let's zoom in..

No it is actually most likely the ruff cut, the stryfe is going to be a semi auto clip fed blaster like the barricade.see link:http://www.nerfmodsreviews.com/2012/10/elite-strife-rayven-elite-firefly-darts.html

I was going to say it looks like the ruff cut but it looks like everyone else figured that out, I am not quite sure based of the lock of quality of the image it looks like it has 4 barrels stacked on top of each other. Do you see that?

It looks like it is pump action. In the first uploaded pic it seems like the handle is pulled back, whereas in the second photo the guy holding it has his hand very far forward - hard to tell if the grip itself is all the way at the front, but it *seems* like it.

Also bear in mind this article where the Ruff Cut and the Stryfe were first mentioned:

"Several models to be introduced next fall are nearly finished—namely the Strife, a semiautomatic pistol, and the Ruff Cut, which is only the third blaster ever that’s capable of shooting two darts at the same time. In the Nerf conference room, Jablonski picks up a supposedly functional prototype of the Ruff Cut made of white epoxy resin: “Let’s see if she works.” He points it straight up and fires a couple of darts into the 30-foot-high rafters.

The UK price list that was leaked called it the Rough Cut 2x4. Wired called it the Ruff Cut.

I was wondering what 2x4 meant and now we see what looks like 4 barrels on the left side of a central divider. Logic dictates there are 4 more on the other side. Since Wired told us that it can fire more than one dart at a time it would appear that each pair of barrels acts like the Barrel Break and can fire two darts almost simultaneously with a long trigger pull. So 2 at a time, 4 times, pump action. Wicked!

A toy blaster resource; from a kidult's perspective living in an Australian inner city apartment. Focusing on out- of- the- box foam dart, laser tag and water guns with the odd two player co-op game thrown in for good measure:)